SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OREGON'S SUICIDE LAW

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[SoFloFreeper]

BREAKING ON THE AP WIRE:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.

[Pyro7480]

See my #177.

[lawdude]

We wanted Justices that would follow the constitution. We got some. This is NOT a Constitutional issue. It is a state issue. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the feds can regulate doctors.

This is what we wanted, now quiturbitchin 'cuz you got it.

Let's look for victories that have to do with a proper look at real issues.

[ohioWfan]

I'm not good at math, but if the vote was 7-3 and Alito were there and not O'Connor, wouldn't the vote then be 5-4, and we would still have lost this crucial vote?

How does Specter have anything to do with it?

[antiRepublicrat]

Hello and goodbye troll!

Troll? How? The constitutional issue here is federal power over the states, not suicide.

[Labyrinthos]

The God-given, unalienable right to life is dead in America.

But who's "right" is it? If I chose not to live, then how have I been deprived of a right? I also have a right to liberty and happiness, and if I voluntarily choose to liberate myself from a slow and painful death and seek happiness in the heavens above, then any attempt by government to stop me from killing myself is a deprivation of my Constitutional rights.

IMO a person's right to kill themself is no more of a federal constitutional issue than a woman's right to slaughter her unborn child.

[ohioWfan]

Excuse me, 6-3.

Now you KNOW I'm not good at math.....

[Sols]

So I have the right to my own life, and I can do with it (or do away with it) as I see fit, barring my intrustion on anyone else's rights.

Also the Declaration is not a legally binding document and our laws are not shaped by it, but I think it does well to help illuminate the idea that I have a right to my own life, and the government will not dictate whether or not I will excercise that right.

[vox_freedom]

yep, they already kill most babies in the womb and sick people in commas, now they will start killing the sick people who are depressed because their relatives don't want to pay for them anymore, next it will be anyone older than a certain age, and followed soon after by anyone with a disability. funny how we are starting to look as bad as the nazi's we defeated.

How very true that we have fallen so far as a society. The morality of killing of innocents is absolutely despicable. Oregon's law that physicians ("First do no harm" yeah, right) are party to the murder of those who can't help themselves and/or help those who are either depressed or mentally prone towards suicide is WRONG. How about those cases that have already occurred such as that of a woman who thinks she has a fatal disease, plays tennis one week and in the next requests a doctor to assist her in suicide. She takes the prescription, and dies. They later find that she is no where near death.

Thank you US Supremes.
Life (er, not really), liberty (well only so much), and property (as long as the government doesn't want to condemn it for some public or private commercial use).

[conserv13]

This is a 'right to life' issue.

People in Oregon have the right to end their life if they want to.

[antiRepublicrat]

No, their lives belong to God, not themselves.

Personal (although popular) opinion, with no business in law, unless of course you'd prefer to live in a theocracy.

[johnnyd]

You can find the law here under ORS 127.800.

http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/127.html

[antiRepublicrat]

I am stunned the courts allowed euthanasia.

They didn't. The law allowed terminally ill people to request lethal doses of drugs so they could end their own lives. What the court allowed is the state's power to govern itself.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Yes, well I can tell you that I know many "immediate family members" who would make the decision based on financial benefits.

[ErnBatavia]

Kevorkian is jailed in Michigan.

If his lawyer, Geoffrey Feiger, didn't have his own current problems, there might be some appeal motions underway.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Kennedy sucks.

All Kennedy's suck.

[vrwc0915]

I am not a coward so I don't need such a plan. I was just trying to make the point that if you truly want to die you will find a way. a supposed care giver has no business killing those who they allegedly are healing For the record I don't like the fed getting every nook and cranny, however states rights do not extend to killing their citizens outside of capital crimes. If you want to see where this is headed look Holland where they kill infants against their parents wishes if they are deemed unfit. I am sure all you atheists are just fine with this however as the very nature of atheism is self centered its all about me me me

[La Enchiladita]

I agree with you that states' rights prevail, but I wonder on what Constitutional grounds the 3 justices dissented...

[Cacique]

We are one step closer to compulsory euthamnasia. No longer useful to society? No longer able to take care of yourself? Too old and feeble? Medical care too expensive? "Quality" of life not up to standards? Let's just pull the plug.

We need two more justices to start reversing this grabage.

[HapaxLegamenon]

You may have it pegged. This may be setting up a repeal of Roe.

Except for the fact that the liberal pro-abortion wing was in the majority. This decision is nonsense. If the FDA Act was constitutional, it gives the FDA power to regulate medicine. It is FDA regulation that forbids medicating people to death. Thats a legitimate regulation. If anyone thinks that the libs that decided this decision will still be on a states rights bandwagon when they hear the next abortion decision, they are dreaming.